Check-hook



(No Model.)

0. A. SQUIRE. CHECK HOOK- No. 474,612. Patented May 10, 1892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. SQUIRE, OF BRADFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

CHECK-I-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 474,612, dated May 10, 1892.

Application filed December 4, 1891. Serial No. 414,004. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OHAELEs A. SQUIRE, of Bradford, county of Essex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Checkrein-Hooks, ofwhich the following description, in connection with the accompanyin g drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to provide an improved checkrein-hook.

A hook constructed in accordance with this invention has its entrance located, preferably, between two inturned points, one of which presents a wall which acts to lift the end of the rein away from the other point to prevent accidental unhooking.

Figure 1 represents a hook embodying this invention, and Fig. 2 a modified form ofhook to be described.

A represents the body of the hook, to which the checkrein B maybe attached, the entrance at to the hook being represented as lying between the two inturned points (1, preferably fitted with suitably-shaped oppositely-turned knobs a upon their inner faces. The space between the points presents aperfectly-clear opening for the free admission of the checkrein. The rein B in hooking or nnhooking is passed between the points a and over the upper point, as indicated.

ing is generally caused by the horse throwing his head back and slacking the rein, as indi- Accidental unhookcated in dotted lines, Fig. 1; but such accidental unhooking is rendered practically impossible by my improved hook, for the wall 5 not only prevents the rein from moving bodily to the right frolnits dotted-line position, but rather acts as a fulcrum when the. rein is slackened and tends to lift the end of the rein away from the upper point a in the direction of the arrow, thus efiectually preventing accidental 'unhooking.

In Fig. 1 the hook is represented as provided with an angle-support 0, adapted to be inserted from the front edge of the saddle, and in Fig. 2 the hook is provided with a central threaded stud d; but the means for support forms no essential part of this invention.

I claim A checkrein-hook consisting of a body portion having two inturned points with a clear opening between them to freely admit the checkrein and oppositely-turned knobs on the inside of the said points and a wall on the outer side of thepoints at the entrance of the opening, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES A. SQUIRE.

Witnesses:

lVIIOI-IAEL F. OoLLINs, THOMAS DONAHOE. 

